U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday revealed she visited Ukraine’s president to show unflinching American support for the country’s defense against Russian aggression.
Pelosi, a California Democrat who is second in line to succeed the president, is the most senior American lawmaker to travel to Ukraine since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24. Her Saturday visit came just days after Russia launched rockets at the capital during a visit by U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres.
U.N. humanitarian spokesman Saviano Abreu told The Associated Press that a long-awaited effort to evacuate people from a steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was underway Sunday. The operation to bring people out of the sprawling Azovstal steel plant was being done with the International Committee for the Red Cross and in coordination with Ukrainian and Russian officials.
Limited evacuations from the city took place on Saturday, but the details had been unclear given the number of parties involved in the negotiations and the volatile situation on the ground. An Associated Press journalist saw women and children arriving in Bezimenne, a village which is under the control of Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, accompanied by U.N. and Red Cross representatives. The U.N. has not confirmed that people were able to leave Mariupol on Saturday.
“If our dead could rise and see this, they would say, ‘It’s not possible, they’re worse than the Germans,’” Hennadiy Bondarenko, 61, said while marking the day with his family at a picnic table among the graves. “All our dead would join the fighting, including the Cossacks.”
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